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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is a cold front? | A cold front is when the boundary of an advancing mass of cold air, in particular the trailing edge of the warm sector of a low pressure system. The blue line that has blue triangles symbolizes a cold front advancing in the direction of the triangles, as |
| How can you tell when a cold front is coming?explain? | A sudden change in the wind direction is commonly observed with the passage of a cold front. Before the arrives, winds ahead of the front (in the warmer air mass) are typically out of the south-southwest, but once the front passes through, winds usually s |
| How can you tell which way the wind is coming from?explain? | Watch the behavior of the object as it falls and you should be able to determine wind direction. Look at a wind vane or wind sock. Whatever direction the weather vane is pointing in is the direction that the wind is coming from -- note that weather vanes |
| What is a warm front?explain? | the boundary of an advancing mass of warm air, in particular the leading edge of the warm sector of a low-pressure system.A warm front is defined as the transition zone where a warm air mass is replacing a cold air mass. Warm fronts generally move from so |
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